Best of
Lovecraftian

2014

C is for Cthulhu: The Lovecraft Alphabet Book


Jason Ciaramella - 2014
    Lovecraft.

The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron


Ross E. LockhartCody Goodfellow - 2014
    These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech...and we love you.

The Litany of Earth


Ruthanna Emrys - 2014
    They took her history, her home, her family, her god. They tried to take the sea. Now, years later, when she is just beginning to rebuild a life, an agent of that government intrudes on her life again, with an offer she wishes she could refuse. "The Litany of Earth" is a dark fantasy story inspired by the Lovecraft mythos.

Re-Animated States of America


Craig Mullins - 2014
    Lovecraft aficionado, award winning film maker and author Craig Mullins. RSoA is twelve stories all featuring beloved mythos character Herbert West, Re-Animator and his human-headed dog companion, Jehovah. Each story contains an illustration brought to life by Mullins' long time artistic collaborator Andrew Ozkenel in striking black and white. This collection includes: Mind Over Madness: Herbert West comes face to face with the ultimate embodiment of mind-altering madness, while the world he left behind falls into ruin. The Key to what the Locksmith Saw: A random encounter with a mysterious three-eyed mutant leads to a discovery that sends Herbert and Jehovah traveling across oceans of space and time. Sheet Metal Apocalypse: Nature finds a way to reanimate the dead, and Herbert West wants the secret, but the newly-risen tyranny is hellbent on destroying Herbert and Jehovah before they can discover the truth. Through Eyes of Rot: A tribe from a valley lost since the dawn of time revive their leader, a being older than creation; a being who can speak to the gods; a being whose rebirth means certain war. Plus eight more mind-bending tales of post-apocalyptic landscapes and Lovecraftian monstrosities!

Darkness Ad Infinitum: Villipede Horror Anthology I


Shawna L. BernardBecky Regalado - 2014
    With fifteen short stories and four poems from both established and upcoming authors, this haunting collection will force readers to reevaluate their thoughts on what darkness really is: something we're all born of yet perpetually trying to flee; a malevolent force that desires our servitude or destruction—or something that simply wishes to lock us in its cold, scaly, fathomless grip. Or perhaps, even, it's an asylum for our jittery minds and confused hearts—a place of solace where humans may patiently inspect their primal natures and desires . . . a place where the barriers between monster and man begin to shift and break down.The authors' origins span the breadth of the globe: the UK, Greece, Australia, Sweden, the US—and their stories are just as diverse. While the styles and subject matter of the stories may differ greatly, what is consistent is the dedication each author has harnessed to create unique fiction and scenarios of bewitching caliber.Holding Darkness Ad Infinitum in your trembling hands, you may find yourself faced with a simple ultimatum: Do you turn around and embrace the darkness of your own free will . . . or will it embrace you first?

Autumn in the Abyss


John Claude Smith - 2014
    Fifty years later, an ill man’s research into Coronado’s work and life reveals that poetry can indeed change the world, or leave it in ruins. The Word is a living thing...and often with lethal intentions. Reality is the strangest mirror... “The stories in John Claude Smith's new collection take their characters to the limits of human experience, the places where our bodies come asunder in the face of the abyss. Positioning his stories in the seams of our cultural history, Smith chronicles the efforts of artists of all stripes--poets, musicians, sculptors, filmmakers--to break through our common experience to another, more essential one that is painted in blood. It's a quest that draws these artists into proximity with the serial-killer in the book's single and singular tale of a police detective's obsessive manhunt. Whether with pen or carving knife, Smith's characters will not stop until they have gone too far, into a space where revelation and terror are part of the same, vast thing." —John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies“These five emotionally complex tales ask, above all, what it means to be human in a tempestuous universe. What part of ourselves do we owe to the pursuit of goodness, especially if there's no apparent advantage to being good? How can we define ourselves in the absence of moral authority? Blurred lines of identity, the role of the artist, and the nature of temptation are explored in these stories of sacrifice and self-destruction. Autumn in the Abyss is another dark and captivating collection from a writer who isn't afraid to plumb the depths of our greatest and most dangerous desires." —S.P. Miskowski, Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of The Skillute Cycle”The best compliment for any artist is leaving the audience desperately wanting more. And that’s exactly what John Claude Smith accomplishes with the tour de force of Autumn in the Abyss. The title novelette is a breathtaking exercise in dark fantasy—a surreal, unabashedly literary, horrific mystery with a surprising, heartrending truth at its end. It’s a tough act to follow, and yet the next four tales not only hold their own, but occasionally even up the ante. The novelette “Becoming Human” is a chilling mix of the serial killer genre and… something much more frightening. And three shorter tales all share a common gatekeeping character, as Smith explores some “Night Gallery” style places that are… just beyond the pale. Smart, creepy, unexpected … these are stories from that nightmare zone that will stick with you long after midnight. Hell, these are stories that will haunt you beneath the bright sun at noon. This is one of the best collections I’ve read in years!" —John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author of NightWhere and Violet Eyes”The Rhythmic flow of John's words instantly absorbs you into his world, bringing not only his words to life but the story as well." —Joe Mynhardt, Crystal Lake Publishing

Blood, Bones and Bullets


Tim Curran - 2014
    This collection contains 3 of Curran’s best novellas in one book! Includes: Puppet Graveyard Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria's hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy. Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles—-a nightmare place where a dummy moves and speaks when his master is nowhere near him. Kitty suspects not only is there something wrong with McBane and his dummy, but a greater evil is at work as those named by the dummy are dying horrible deaths. And now she has been named by the same soul-eater that destroyed her sister. The Underdwelling With a kid on the way, Boyd needed the job bad. But the idea of going underground at the Hobart Mine, down into the dark labyrinth of tunnels to get at the raw ore, left him with a brooding sense of unease. Maybe it was the fact that his father had died down in the mines or maybe it was something much worse. Digging a new drift down in Level #8, the lowest level of the mine, an immense shaft opens up. Boyd and a few others volunteer to explore it. Some 400 feet down, they find a passage that leads to an immense cavern from prehistory. A petrified world. A prehistoric graveyard. Then a cave-in traps them down there. In the darkness and dank shadows of a fossilized world, they realize they are not alone. Something has woken in the stone. Something ancient and terrible and coldly intelligent. Fear Me Shaddock Valley. A maximum security prison that houses the worst of the worst: drug gangs, psychopaths, rapists, gangters, and outlaw bikers. In a place like that, a skinny little kid like Danny Palmquist doesn't stand a chance. It doesn't take long before the hardtimers move in on him. Then they begin to die horribly. In locked cells. When the lights go out at Shaddock Valley, the nightmare begins. When Danny Palmquist goes to sleep, something else wakes up. Something primeval. Something bloodthirsty. And if you mess with Danny Palmquist, it will find you. And in the darkness, nothing can save you.

Movers


Evan James Clark - 2014
    They are scattered across the world. Always small. Always inviting. Always friendly. Shopfronts with handwritten signs in the windows, shelves stacked with baubles and cheap antiques. Little treasures. Precious things. The places that most walk by without a second look. They open. They close. They move in the night. These are the rules. Jamie Christop is a professional. He's a man without a past or future. During the day, he goes unnoticed, a face that fades into the crowd. At night, he's a veteran of a thousand bars, parking lot fights, and one night stands. He's the empty corner table, the sucker punch in the dark, the shadow that slips away. He is perfect for the job. He does not ask questions. He loves his work. Jamie disappears for a living. He is a mover

Professor Challenger: The Kew Growths and Other Stories


William Meikle - 2014
    In these tales you'll find him investigating lost worlds, delving into deep and dangerous places, and facing creatures long thought lost in legend. Follow Challenger as, with the help of his long-time companion, journalist Edward Malone, and some aid from Carnacki and John Logie Baird, he saves London from menace, tracks down ape-men, and visits a high plateau in Montana where time has stood still.

A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos


S.T. JoshiNeil Gaiman - 2014
    P. Lovecraft wrote “The Call of Cthulhu” in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if not thousands of authors of weird, fantasy, and science fiction have added their distinctive elaborations on Lovecraft’s basic themes and ideas. This volume features some of the best Cthulhu Mythos writing over the past century. Beginning with such rare but classic stories as Mearle Prout’s “The House of the Worm” and Robert Barbour Johnson’s “Far Below,” from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wade’s novella “The Deep Ones” and Ramsey Campbell’s refreshing riff on the “forbidden book” motif, “The Franklyn Paragraphs.” Acclaimed stories by T. E. D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman, and W. H. Pugmire are also included. The book includes an array of original stories by such leading authors of Lovecraftian fiction as Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Donald Tyson, Cody Goodfellow, and Michael Shea. Gemma Files contributes a richly textured novella, while Jonathan Thomas offers a story full of his distinctive melding of horror and satire. A Mountain Walked is chock-full of stories old and new that highlight the endless variations that can be played on H. P. Lovecraft’s signature creation. S. T. Joshi is the leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft. He is the author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft and the editor of the Black Wings series of Lovecraftian fiction. He edits the Lovecraft Annual and the Weird Fiction Review.

No One is Sleeping in This World


Christopher Slatsky - 2014
    Carla and Julia are aspiring avant garde documentary filmmakers who discover that sentience is not relegated to humanity alone, for greater minds exist within the world's cities, minds that far exceed any human created gods.

Weird Tales of Horror (Lit Pulp Book 1)


David J. West - 2014
    service men see during the first gulf war while in the deep desert of Arabia that was NOT man made? Does hazing happen at Area 51? And gunfighter Porter Rockwell tangles with supernatural surprises throughout the Old West. "With these tales of many lands and many peoples, David J. West combines an excellent prose style with a brilliant imagination to give us a solid collection of wonderful stories. This is a refreshingly original gathering of weird fiction." --W. H. Pugmire "David J. West, author of 'Heroes of the Fallen', is a strong voice in the field of Sword & Sorcery. His work is evocative, featuring deftly drawn characters, exotic locales and energetic tale spinning."

The Darkness Out of Carthage


Carl D. Smith - 2014
    Contrary to recorded history, Rome fought not to eliminate her greatest rival but for the survival of all mankind. A secret lost to time is now revealed; told through the eyes of a witness to the horrible darkness spreading out of Carthage.Mixing historical fact with elements of Lovecraftian horror, The Darkness Out of Carthage explores the Third Punic War with the question "what if Rome fought not to be the world's conqueror but its savior?"

The Shoggoth Conspiracy


David Conyers - 2014
    They were running, fast and away from a threat he could not see. He looked for the pursuer, until he realized his mind wasn’t imaging a hunter much bigger than the men. When he spotted the amorphous shape the size of a mining dump truck, all white and tentacles and eyes and mouths that seemed to shift in and out of a jelly-like consistency, he squirmed. The pulsating shape rolled over one man crushing him without slowing an iota. It was like watching a tsunami engulf unsuspecting bathers on a populated beach.” The human race is doomed, and no one knows this better than Army Intelligence Officer, Major Harrison Peel, because he’s witnessed the threats first hand, and the threats are alien horrors. Everyday somewhere on the Earth, alien monsters are extracted through wormholes linked to bizarre dimensions and impossible planets. These are threats that cannot be controlled, defeated or understood, but Peel fights on regardless. But what he fears most are the shoggoths, shape-changing, near-indestructible creatures forging a conspiracy that will enslave all humanity. In a blend of cosmic horror with weird science fiction and action spy adventure, The Shoggoth Conspiracy recounts the adventures of Harrison Peel, who travels the globe fighting the good fight against alien monsters of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos wherever they appear threatening to destroy humanity. The Shoggoth Conspiracy contains all the stories that first appeared in The Impossible Object, The Weaponized Puzzle, The Elder Codex and The Infinity Agenda, also available as standalone ebooks.

Ravencroft Springs


Logan L. Masterson - 2014
    Following the unexpected success of his first novel and subsequent destruction of his marriage, David wanted somewhere nice and quiet to settle down. He wanted to surround himself with art, not people, and just maybe get to work on his next book. But nothing is quite what it seems on Unaka Mountain. The abandoned hotels and homes of Ravencroft Springs decay in silent dignity. But when Dunbarton relocates in hopes of breathing life into the town and himself, the mystery draws him in, leading him down mist-laden streets where he finds arcane mysteries and bizarre townsfolk. Leading him ever closer to the Secret of Unaka. A Lovecraftian tale of suspense set in the ancient Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee, Ravencroft Springs is also a tale of desperate love and unrequited fate, both monstrous and moving all at once. From Pro Se Productions.

The Early Adventures of Andrew Doran


Matthew Davenport - 2014
    Andrew Doran fought Nazis and Monsters, he was just a child like anyone else. What led him down the path toward defending humanity? What does a boy in the early 1920's do when his entire world is turned upside down by the sudden intrusion of spirits and monsters? This is the tale of the beginning of Andrew Doran.

That Ain't Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley


Dawn VogelErik Scott de Bie - 2014
    Ghost stories wrapped in magickal moon lore with a heaping helping of elder gods and forbidden books, all swapped between boys and girls over dwindling campfires. We collected alternate histories like kids on TV traded baseball cards. As a child of Arkham, you just took for granted you lived in a special town, but seeing that difference up close and personal, in the place where you gave up evenings and weekends so college admissions might think you were well-rounded and responsible, well, seeing that kind of truth was an awful big shock." -- "Arkquarium" by Folly Blaine Mad Scientist Journal has brought together eighteen tales of people who have either lived in this strange corner of New England or had the misfortune of visiting. Mixed in with nods to classic Lovecraft icons are stories that bring a new eye to the genre. Tales of horse drawn carriages share space with orbital shuttles, alternate worlds, and football. Included in this collection are Sanford Allen, Brandon Barrows, Folly Blaine, Darin M. Bush, Kelda Crich, Nathan Crowder, Erik Scott de Bie, Sean Frost, Phil Gonzales, Brian Hamilton, Samuel Marzioli, Erick Mertz, Craig D. B. Patton, Jenna M. Pitman, Evan Purcell, Damir Salkovic, Emily C. Skaftun, and Cliff Winnig.

Lovecraft eZine Megapack - 2013 - Issues 21 through 28


Mike DavisJessica Salmonson - 2014
    The Lovecraft eZine is a magazine featuring Lovecraftian horror and the Cthulhu Mythos. The eZine is highly regarded in the horror community. This megapack includes columns by Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price, plus the "Cthulhu Does Stuff" comic, and 46 tales of Lovecraftian horror! Lovecraft eZine regularly publishes well-known writers such as Robert M. Price, Stephen Mark Rainey, W.H. Pugmire, Ann K. Schwader, Joseph S. Pulver, SR., William Meikle, and many more Read the eZine blog: http://www.lovecraftzine.com Included in this volume: Beneath the Pier, by Stephen Mark Rainey An Eidolon of Filth, by W.H. Pugmire A (~BIG~) Fishy Menu, by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Dom and Gio’s Barber Shop, by Gerry Huntman The Stranger’s Trail, by Tom Lynch Dunwich Redux, by Tim Scott Cthulhu Does Stuff, #1, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson The Dance, by Robin Spriggs Maybe the Stars, by Samantha Henderson The Pyramid Spider, by Simon Kurt Unsworth Powers of Air and Darkness, by Don Webb Verbapeutic, by Joe Nazare The Masked Messenger, by David Conyers & John Goodrich Cthulhu Does Stuff, #2, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Echoes From Cthulhu’s Crypt, #1, a column by Robert M. Price The Strange Tale of Samuel Winchester, by Samantha Hendersen & Andrew Nicolle Tracking the Black Book, by Douglas Wynne Not With a Bang, But Waves Whispering, by Wendy Wagner A Cold Yellow Moon, by Joe Pulver & Edward Morris The Whisper From the Deep, by Cora Pop Nectar of Strange Lips, by Michael Griffin Cthulhu Does Stuff, #3, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Echoes From Cthulhu’s Crypt, #2, a column by Robert M. Price Less a Dream Than This We Know, by Christopher M. Cevasco The Horror Under the City, by Kevin Crisp How Rare are Light and Life, by J.T. Glover The Basalt Obelisk, by Michael Wen Evolved, by Kenneth W. Cain Cosmic Terror from Poe to Lovecraft, an essay by Sandro D. Fossemo Cthulhu Does Stuff, #4, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Echoes From Cthulhu’s Crypt, #3, a column by Robert M. Price And They Did Live by Watchfires, by Evan Dicken In Dark Corners, by Bradley H. Sinor Missing Presumed Wiped, by Derek John The Eye, by Justin Munro A Glimpse of the Future, by Stewart Horn Cthulhu Does Stuff, #5, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Echoes From Cthulhu’s Crypt, #4, a monthly column by Robert M. Price The Crevasse, by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud Cement Shoe Cthulhu, by Derek Ferreira Between, by William Meikle The Moon’s Architecture, by Graham Lowther The Arkham Terror, by Pete Rawlik The Pariah, by Bruce Durham Cthulhu Does Stuff, #6, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson He Knew Not the Month Was October, by Zach Shephard Crash_the_World.exe, by Derek Ferreira A Knight in the Lonesome October, by William Meikle Mother of Monsters, by Josh Wanisko The Bells of Northam, by Joshua Reynolds What You Leave Behind, by Evan Dicken Cthulhu Does Stuff #7, a comic strip by Ronnie Tucker & Maxwell Patterson Echoes from Cthulhu’s Crypt, #5, a monthly column by Robert M.

Shutdown


Shaun Meeks - 2014
    Sometimes they are buried for a reason. GenCross, a genetics company in Toronto, wants to learn the secrets, good or bad. So do others and they’ll do anything to get them. Tim “Mouse” Jones is a university drop out who found success as a hacker. When he’s offered a job to make more money than ever, it’s hard to say no. Even if it means breaking into one of the most secure buildings in the city. The security system and the guards will be hard to get past, but the money is just too tempting to say no to. Greed is an ugly monster. Amanda McMichaels works in the Cross building and knows something about monsters. She lives with one, and work is her only escape from him. Yet the monster at home is nothing compared to what lives on the 10th floor of the Cross building. As the building shuts down, and the secret evil awakens, Amanda and Mouse are drawn together and must help each other to survive those that are hunting them. Some things should stay buried.

Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos


Bobby Derie - 2014
    P. Lovecraft was one of the most asexual beings in history at least by his own admission. Whether we accept this view of his own sexual instincts or not, there is no denying that sexuality normal and aberrant underlies a number of significant tales in the Lovecraft oeuvre. The impregnation of a human woman by Yog-Sothoth in "The Dunwich Horror" and the mating of humans with strange creatures from the sea in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" are only two such examples. In this pioneering study, Bobby Derie has presented an objective and scholarly analysis of the significant uses of love, gender, and sex in the work of H. P. Lovecraft and some of his leading disciples. Along the way, Derie treats such matters as Lovecraft's relations with his wife, portrayals of women in his work, and the question of homosexuality in his life and work. Many Lovecraft stories are subject to detailed examination for their sexual implications. Derie then examines the work of such significant writers of the Lovecraft tradition as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, W. H. Pugmire, and Caitlin R. Kiernan, whose work features far more explicit sexuality than anything Lovecraft could have imagined. Derie goes on to study sexual themes in other venues, such as Lovecraftian occultism, Japanese manga and anime, and even Lovecraftian fan fiction. The result is a comprehensive and incisive examination of a delicate subject but one whose significance in Lovecraftian writing can hardly be denied."

The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal


David Barker - 2014
    Richard, to whom she bequeathed her house and wealth, is less fortunate than his expectation has led him to believe; his inheritance is something unholy–and he is no match for the machinations of Rebecca and her acolytes. Inspired in part by Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep,” THE REVENANT OF REBECCA PASCAL takes you to ghostly houses and sinister Arkham burying grounds, where alchemy and madness join forces with a daemonic entity aroused from beyond the wall of sleep.

Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies


Dennis Detwiller - 2014
     These tales of cosmic terror and personal horror span the life of Delta Green, the desperate organization that Detwiller helped create: a group of men and women who have seen the awful truths of reality and struggle to keep those realities at bay as long as they can. The tales include: Introduction (by John Scott Tynes) Foreword: The Alien Thoughts, Part 1 (by Robin D. Laws) Intelligences (1928) The File (1942) Night and Water (1944) Dead, Death, Dying (1955) Punching (1964) The Secrets No One Knows (1968) Coming Home (1974) The Thing in the Pit (1977) Drowning in Sand (1981) Contingencies (1984) Philosophy (1993) Witch Hunt (2015) After Math (20XX) Afterword: The Alien Thoughts, Part 2 (by Robin D. Laws)

Night Shall Overtake


Michael R. Collins - 2014
    Lovecraftian horrors have day jobs, things that defy imagination are running convenience stores and fast food joints. Twila Matthews, an underpaid shapeshifting private detective with a cell phone possessed by an unnerving demon, is hired on a simple missing person’s case. But when she finds her target dead, an unraveling conspiracy leads Twila and her crew into the darkest parts of the city in direct confrontation with the most evil and diabolical of monsters…“Michael Collins is a true talent!” --Joe Flynn, horror host, The Joe Flynn Show

Dreamhounds of Paris


Robin D. Laws - 2014
    Combative, disrespectful, irresponsible, the surrealists broke aesthetic conventions, moral boundaries—and sometimes, arms. They sought nothing less than to change humanity by means of a worldwide psychic revolution. Their names resound through pop culture and the annals of art history.But until now, no one has revealed what they were really up to.In this comprehensive campaign guide for Trail of Cthulhu, you recreate their mundane and mystical adventures as you stumble onto the Dreamlands, a fantastical realm found far beyond the wall of sleep. At first by happenstance and later by implacable design, you remake it in the fiery image of your own art. Will you save the world, or destroy it? Choose your player character from a roster of 19 visionaries and madmen.Put up your dukes as two-fisted filmmaker LUIS BUÑUEL.Flee a formless entity as Dada impresario TRISTAN TZARA.Photograph tentacled entities as American expat MAN RAY.Personify the joy and decadence of the city as chanteuse KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE.Wield the magic cane that will end the world as theater of cruelty inventor ANTONIN ARTAUD.Or arrive in Paris as fresh-faced young painter SALVADOR DALÍ, who has come to tear the movement all down and rebuild it in his image.The Dreamlands are as strange as you can imagine.Source: http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=8290

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Dreams in the Witch House


NOT A BOOK - 2014
    Before long, the room's weird architecture and disturbing dreams invade his psyche. Is he going mad, or are his horrifying dreams somehow becoming reality?

No Light in August: Tales from Carcosa & the Borderland


R.L. Robinson - 2014
    Journey into the realm of the Yellow King.There are many roads to Carcosa, which one will you take?Featuring eight short stories and two novelettes inspired by the King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, as well as Lovecraftian elements, 'No Light in August' also includes illustrations by Brazilian comic artist Pedro Elefante.Bonus material: Concept art and development sketches.

A Bit of the Dark World


Toni V. Sweeney - 2014
    Horror novel set in the South.

Empire of the Wheel III: The Nameless Ones


Walter Bosley - 2014
    In this volume, the author explores the connections between the Inland Empire of Southern California and H.P.Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, The Zodiac Killer, the mysterious NYMZA, lost civilizations, voodoo, and the suspected murder of Harry Houdini.The hidden occult elements of Riverside, California, are identified on a grid linked to possible Hekate veneration, expanding the stage of high strangeness discovered in the first volume. New associations are revealed as the shadowy path leads from past to the present.

The King in Yellow Rises [Annotated] [Illustrated] [Translated]: The Lost Book of Carcosa (Lovecraftian Librarium)


Charles Baudelaire - 2014
    This fascinating tome traces the secret legacy of The King in Yellow in chronological order, from the bloodline of Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Naduad to Ambrose Bierce, Robert Chambers to H. P. Lovecraft, and into the present day with such tributes as TRUE DETECTIVE and A SEASON IN CARCOSA. Come unravel the mystery of the plague masquerade, the Tatterdemalion, the Pallid Mask, Hastur, Hali, and the unspeakable riddle of the Yellow Sign. This work is one of the volumes of the LOVECRAFTIAN LIBRARIUM, a treasury of the masterworks which H.P. Lovecraft modeled his own writings upon in his development of the Cthulhu Mythos. For readers interested in the very best tales of the supernatural, the Librarium will prove to be one of the finest collections of classic essentials! This unique collection includes fifteen stories and poems, with 37 illustrations; comprising 57,000 words, and approximately 220 pages. From Wonderland Imprints, Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.

Maldicion


Daniel Marc Chant - 2014
    Dazed, dehydrated and desperate to escape, he will have to use all his wits just to stay alive in a strange and unforgiving environment. But when he discovers an ancient ruin, he unwittingly unleashes an unstoppable evil and his nightmare truly begins.Primal, merciless and fuelled by a burning hatred, the creature has a hunger that must be appeased. It hunts Dexter wherever he goes, driving him to the edge of his own sanity, and with time running out and no place left to hide it's escape......or die.A heart-pounding chase across lethal terrain, Maldición splices the rush of a survival thriller with the twisted creations of HP Lovecraft to create a man versus monster tale unlike any other.

Dark Moon Digest 15


Lori MichelleVic Kerry - 2014
    by Brian G. Ross White Faces by Michael Penkas In The Sun by Shaun Meeks Doctor Brown and the Tentacles of Doom!!!!! by John Lance Shillings by Michelle K. Bujnowski The Botanist by Gerry Griffiths Red Teeth by Vic Kerry The South Will Rise Again by Jason Norton Hours to Kill by W.P. Johnson Origins Unknown by Aaron Gudmunson Making Amends by Georgina Morales Simon by Glenn Rolfe

A Shrill Keening


Ronald Malfi - 2014
    But his nights are spent elsewhere, patrolling an evacuated stretch of beach for some purpose that is not readily apparent. During the day, he struggles to decipher which part of his existence is real and which is not. At night, he tries to uncover the mystery to a numbered code, a silver key, and a band of people who have given him his cryptic instructions. Are these two realities linked? Could the answers to the mysteries in one reality be found within the other? Carl must find out before time runs out, and the sound of a shrill keening threatens to destroy both realities.

The Nickronomicon


Nick Mamatas - 2014
    Warning: May contain shoggoths, martial arts, weirdness, Nyarlathotep, fish people from Innsmouth, and copious literary references. With an introduction by Orrin Grey and a bevy of disturbing alchemical illustrations by GMB Chomichuk. Side effects may include hallucinations and a steep descent into insanity.

Legacy


J.G. Faherty - 2014
    After that, nothing is the same. He experiences strange nightmares. He hallucinates about alien creatures and begins to notice weird physical changes in his body, things no one else seems to see. The girl he’s had a crush on for years is acting strange as well, delivering cryptic messages to him that things are not what they seem. When he discovers a secret room in the library, Sean finds himself faced with a life-changing decision, one that could either save the world or plunge it into centuries of death and destruction—with Sean ruling over all.

Stars of Black: Contemplations upon the Pale King


Julian M. Miles - 2014
    Any who read it will experience epiphanies beyond endurance. Countless centuries of its malign influence are spanned by the stories in this book. From seventeenth-century buccaneers to twenty-first century soldiers, from Victorian slums to modern suburban streets, the play and the monarch it tells of have wrought ruination and salvation. Inspired by the weird horror of nineteenth century authors Robert W. Chambers and Ambrose Bierce; get to know the original King in Yellow.